Characteristics of Eisenhower and Kennedy Appointees to the Lower Federal Courts

1 See, for example, Pendleton Herring, Federal Commissioners: A Study of Their Careers and Qualifications (Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1936); Floyd Hunter, Community Power Structure: A Study of Decision-Makers (Chapel Hill: U. of N. Carolina Press, 1953); Donald R. Matthews, Social Background of Political Decision-Makers (Garden City: Doubleday, 1954); C. Wright Mills, Power Elite (New York: Oxford U. Press, 1956) ; Dwaine Marvick (ed.), Political Decision-Makers: Recruitment and Performance (Glencoe: Free Press, 1961); W. Lloyd Warner et al., American Federal Executive (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1963); Samuel C. Patterson, Characteristics of Party Leaders, Western Political Quarterly, 16 (1963), 332-52; Theodore J. Lowi, At the Pleasure of the Mayor (Glencoe: Free Press, 1964); Dean E. Mann, The Selection of Federal Political Executives, APSR, 58 (1964), 81-99; Gerald Pomper, New Jersey County Chairmen, Western Political Quarterly, 18 (1965), 186-97.